[Cialug] Decent diy nas box -- Woot

[Theron Conrey]

As an aside: Running FreeNAS is fine, but the state of ZFS on Linux has
gotten MUCH better in the last few years and I'd recommend new folks to
"DIY storage" folks w/ linux experience to leverage that experience and
just layer on the storage bits.  FreeNAS is a great standalone device, but
if you're doing linux sysadmin-ery already in your environment, leverage
that w/ ZFS instead of adding YAPTM (yet another platform to manage).

While installing ZFS on Ubuntu is trivial, once installed I like to point
people to the Arch docs for ZFS as they're pretty good for beginners. (skip
the install bits and just jump to the configuration section)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ZFS

I run 4x8TB drives in a zfs box on a supermicro board with 4 gigs of ram
with an icydock tool less drive sled i picked up from newegg years ago.





On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 9:52 AM, <khamil8686 at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://wootstalker.com/ -- site owned/operated by Cory, the guy behind
> me. Helps to get good deals on woot. For example, I got a sewing machine
> for my wife for $40 that retails for $160 the other week when they were
> having a wootoff, a day of lots of good deals. 😊
>
>
> From: David Champion
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 9:48 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: [Cialug] Decent diy nas box
>
> I've used an older model of these Dell T series servers for FreeNAS
> servers. This one has a quad core xeon and 8gb RAM, has 4 HD bays.
>
> https://computers.woot.com/offers/dell-poweredge-t30-
> intel-xeon-mt-server?ref=eml_w_nd_3_tl&ref_=pe_3185080_247127410
>
> -dc
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